Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Rathcannon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcannon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46951, -8.61855
- SMR number
- LI039-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough wet pasture, well 40m to SE, enclosure (LI039-025----) lies 430m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an oval-shaped earthwork on aerial photograph (GSIA 543). Monument visible as a sunken oval-shaped area or pond (dims. c. 28m N-S; 18m E-W) enclosed by a wide bank, opening at SSW, intersected at SW by a linear cropmark running NE-SW into a drainage channel on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Visible as a possible pond feature on Google Earth orthoimages. Doubtful antiquity may be the remains of a natural pond.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 April 2021
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.